Senior Associate – Projects - Cognizant Technology Solutions
(2025-07)
- Leadership: Earned a merit-based promotion to Team Lead position, successfully transitioning to and driving the offshore technical execution of CVS Medicaid Project initiatives with full ownership and accountability.
- Adapting New Tech: Proactively leverage cutting-edge AI tools to elevate productivity, strengthen code quality, and consistently deliver high-standard solutions - minimizing errors and maximizing client satisfaction.
- Current Engagement: Currently leading offshore technical delivery for the Medicaid Project, focusing on bulk data ingestion, transformation and Egress API build, Performance Tuning, Code Optimization, DB usage Optimizations by collaborating with Clients and Technical team to ensure seamless execution.
Associate – Projects - Cognizant Technology Solutions
(2021-08 - 2025-06)
- Expertise Mastery: Demonstrated swift mastery of XQuery, Cognizant In-house MarkLogic framework, and US HR Business Concepts. Contributing within just one month of project initiation showcased my quick adaptability. Worked on setting up the CORB tool and creating the CORB jobs for various requirements.
- Strategic Collaboration: Built numerous REST APIs, collaborating closely with HR clients to deliver UI and Batch based Reports. Proposed multiple enhancements, adding value to the Business and Maximising billable hours.
- Innovative Challenge: As a key contributor worked on the development of a UI-based Dynamic PDF Creation Tool, by grabbing the 4K+ billable hours as a team with a savings of over $80K annually to the Business which eases out the legal document changes for the Business Owners without the involvement of IT Team.
- Individual Contribution: Single-handedly led a parallel project of 3.5K+ hours during an enterprise-level change, transitioning from a legacy UI application to an HCM tool. Effectively sourced data from different entities for domestic and international populations, executing the project flawlessly with zero production defects, earning great appreciations from Business and Management. Here's what the client Project Manager said about that delivery "One of Amruth's major contributions was a being
- Proactive Solutionist: Achieved HCM Project seamlessly, from POC creation to solutioning with a minimalistic approach, engaging productive brainstorming sessions with Business and Onsite Leads. Proactively collaborated with QA and UAT teams and always delivered well before the deadlines.
- Upskilling & Adaptability: Upskilled with Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Certification for an upcoming cloud migration Project thereby proving the Adaptability.
- RCA Specialist: Successfully cracked numerous RCAs in the Production and in the lower environments during the setup of new environments and building the pipelines.
- Value-Centric Enhancement: Built a cutting-edge Data-Reconciliation tool using XQuery APIs and Shell Scripting that detected source data issues, saving giant manual efforts for the Prod Support team and Business. Tuned the Performance of majority reports and APIs by analysing the bottlenecks and guidance from the Architects thereby decreasing the latency of ~25% to 45%.
- Visionary: Worked on the crucial Job Schedule planning and efficiently created the Job Schedule for the entire project, which was implemented into the Tidal Scheduler by securing team-wide agreement from all stakeholder's by understanding the complete data flow of the project.
- Hardworking Enthusiast: Spearheaded the deployment tool migration project from Urban Code to Octopus, emphasizing collaboration among team members. Also managed resource allocation planner.
- Team-oriented Player: Smoothly transitioned major deliverables to the Production support team, ensuring the external vendors are confident enough to support the project.
- Versatile Strength: Guided junior resources, showcased coding prowess, executed seamless multitasking, took ownership of responsibilities, effectively communicated with clients, proposing alternate solutions, excelled in RCAs, conducted meticulous Unit testing and achieved an 45% reduction in QA defects.
- Client-Acclaimed: Received accolades from Client Senior Project Managers and Internal Leadership team for consistently delivering successful, sustainable and reliable projects and was Awarded as an Emerging Talent.
Software Development Senior Associate - NTT Data
(2018-10 - 2021-08)
2.7 years of experience in BIE development using MarkLogic, NIFI, JavaScript, Java, Groovy and CTS technologies. Proficient in full SDLC, including requirement gathering, Data Modelling, Ingestion flow development, Data Curation, and Automic Job creation for delivering extracts and reports.
- Commenced as a BIE developer in a Healthcare domain transformation project, applying agile methodologies. Gained expertise in healthcare concepts, focussing on Payor clients, while maintaining a curiosity-driven approach.
- Developed NIFI (Data Ingestion tool) workflows for data ingestion into MarkLogic NoSQL database from various sources.
- Transitioned to the Extracts team, efficiently translating business requirements into extracts and demonstrating strong techno-functional development skills.
- Extensive experience with MarkLogic Data Ingestion, JSON transformation & Data Curation.
- Developed REST APIs and services for generating the data extracts.
- Created CORB jobs to address critical data issues for fixing them in the Live environment.
- Extensively used range indexes & TDE.
- Experienced in setting up and working across Dev, QA, UAT and Prod environments.
- Involved in all the test cases design and unit testing of all the development activities.
- Analysed the performance bottlenecks in the BIE environment and proposed solutions that improved the performance by ~15-20% across different scenarios.
- Selected as the offshore point of contact for successful execution of the Ingestion, Harmonization and extract jobs.
- Well versed in data analysis and data profiling by dealing with the large healthcare data.
- Ensured on-time delivery, maintained a record of meeting deadlines and developed Automic Job flows for extract scheduling using Unix Shell scripting.
- Played a pivotal role in a unexpected time-sensitive retrofit project, overseeing mapping, ingestion, extract development and job scheduling for seamless integration with the main BIE project go-live. Successfully achieved the objective two weeks in advance, showcasing strategic planning with fellow team members, extended dedication, and proactive collaboration with the onsite team.
- Directly collaborated with Client vendors, grasped their requirements, and consistently delivered the extracts and reports on time, earning commendations from the vendors and Client Project Manager.
- Extensively used MLCP for data migration, and developed comprehensive documentation, and runbooks for L2+ support team, including crucial resources for L1 and L1.5 support.
- The meticulously detailed runbook template was acknowledged as the best, leading to the replacement of all pre-existing templates.
- Excelled in resolving major production issues during the warranty period in the minimal time.
- Proven ability to work with within a team or independently with excellent organizational skills.
- Consistently acknowledged as a consecutive Star Performer, prioritizing client focus as a core objective. Contributed significantly to innovation and achieved code reusability within projects.
- As an Integrated Developer, managed five major value-based extracts and contributed to multiple enhancements. Successfully developed a complex transformation extract in 1 week, resolving a persistent team challenge, earning recognition from both business and management.
